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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: John Stamford & George TATE, Beverley
« on: Monday 07 September 09 18:55 BST (UK)  »
 :)You people are amazing!  Thank you so much for all this information.  And the Date/Tate man is an interesting one.  I am going to have to map it all out for myself so that I can have a better look.  Many thanks again.  I really appreciate it. 

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The Common Room / Advice re birth certificate parents
« on: Monday 07 September 09 14:03 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

Can anyone advise me please? 

I have a birth certificate from the 1930s.  The child has the same surname as the father and it would appear that the parents were married.  I also have the mother's maiden name.  However I cannot find record of a marriage between the parents.  I've looked on ancestry.  Is it possible that they lied on the birth certificate?  Has anyone come across anything similar perhaps.  I've no reason to believe that they would have married overseas, but wondered about doing a check.  I've checked Ireland, but not Scotland or any other countries.  One of the surnames is quite unusual so shouldn't be too hard to find if it does occur but I don't know where to look.  Any advice welcome.  Many thanks for reading this. 

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Essex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Grays Thurrock Electoral Roll 1937/8
« on: Sunday 06 September 09 13:55 BST (UK)  »
 :)Many thanks Clincher2.  I spoke to a librarian at Grays who said they had the electoral registers for 1937/8.  It may be that I can go there myself in October - just the small matter of organizing family and dog! So I'll stay in touch and let you know if I can go there myself.

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Cumberland / Re: Peter L JOHNSON b 1903 Whitehaven
« on: Saturday 05 September 09 09:09 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks to Geoff-E and to emmsheight for your input.  You might have read the other comments re my post.  I've made a note of the Johnson family you've listed Geoff-E in case it fits in with my jigsaw later on.  Quite apart from the fact that there are a lot of Peter Johnsons I still have a picture in my mind's eye of Whitehaven even though I've only been there once some years ago.  It's an amazing part of our landscape and heritage.  I hope to go there again before too long as we're planning a trip in that direction.  :)

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Cumberland / Re: Peter L JOHNSON b 1903 Whitehaven
« on: Saturday 05 September 09 09:02 BST (UK)  »
Hi CarolW,

Thanks once again for your comments re my Peter Johnson posts.  I would just like to point out to you and to any other people who read my posts that I am asking for help in this search because I have so little information.  Finding some information about this person would make a huge and positive difference to my life and to the life of several other people in my immediate family.  It is precisely because I have so little information that I am trying the wider family history research community for help. 

I would also like to point out that I am immensely respectful of anyone who does volunteer searches either for myself or for others and I always say thank you.  I have looked up things for people in contexts other than this site (I am new to this site) and would happily do so again.  I also work as a volunteer in another professional context, which I do, as I presume other volunteers do, because they wish to do so.   :)

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: John Stamford & George TATE, Beverley
« on: Saturday 05 September 09 08:38 BST (UK)  »
Thanks again Wozzle and Tati.   :) 

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Essex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Grays Thurrock Electoral Roll 1937/8
« on: Saturday 05 September 09 08:27 BST (UK)  »
Hi Louisa Maud,

Many thanks for your message.

I don't know the answer to that question generally.  But I spoke to a librarian at Grays Thurrock library and he said that they had electoral registers for 1937/8 but not for 1939 or the war years.   :)

For my particular enquiry re Peter Johnson, I've so little information to go on that the electoral roll could provide me with the clue I'm looking for.


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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: John Stamford & George TATE, Beverley
« on: Friday 04 September 09 14:54 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks Wozzle and Tati.  I will put this information with what I have.   :)

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Cumberland / Re: Peter L JOHNSON b 1903 Whitehaven
« on: Friday 04 September 09 14:51 BST (UK)  »
Hi CarolW

As a new person to this site, can I just ask if there is any objection to me posting a similar question onto boards of various counties?  It's been suggested that I try all the census entries which I shall do.

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